NCRI – In an interview with the BBC Radio on January 10, Hossein Abedini, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran exposed the clerical regime's ambitions to establish an Islamic empire. The following is the text of his interview:

BBC Radio Five Live - Iran has resumed work in some of its research nuclear centers today. The United States has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran says that its research is for purely peaceful purposes. The Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the Iranians were pushing their luck with the international community. Hossein Abedini is on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and joins us now. Hello to you.
Hossein: Hello, good afternoon.

Agence France Presse - With European efforts to persuade Iran to renounce any nuclear weapons ambitions in collapse, the United States thinks it has garnered enough world support for its original plan to seek UN action.

Reuters - Three top European Union powers were expected to formally call off moribund nuclear talks with Iran and to advocate sending the dispute to the Security Council when they meet on Thursday, a diplomat from one of the EU trio said.

Reuters - Britain called on Wednesday for the U.N. Security Council to consider action against Iran after it vowed to resume nuclear fuel research and Washington said a referral to the body was "more likely than ever."

Iran's hardline president said his country would pursue its nuclear program despite international concerns.

Agence France Presse - Iran insisted Wednesday it would not give up its nuclear program despite being roundly condemned by world leaders over its resumption of nuclear fuel research, risking possible enforcement action by the United Nations.
 
"This is a sensitive issue. We can not give up our rights, No Iranian will be ready to give up our rights, and they should know that we will remain firm," Iran's former influential president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said.

By Bill Gertz
 
The Washington Times - Iran's resumption of uranium enrichment yesterday will move Tehran closer to full-scale nuclear weapons production, according to U.S. and Western officials and specialists.

U.S. government officials said the move will likely lead to U.N. Security Council action, including sanctions against Iran.

By Nicholas Kralev

The Washington Times - Iran removed U.N. seals at its Natanz uranium-enrichment plant and resumed nuclear-fuel research yesterday, provoking immediate condemnation from the United States and Europe along with renewed threats of Security Council action.

U.S. and European officials began intensive discussions on how to respond to Tehran's move, focusing on a possible emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) board of governors in Vienna, Austria.

Fox News, WASHINGTON — In the presence of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, Iran on Tuesday unsealed uranium enrichment equipment that the U.N. agency had blocked from use because the Islamic republic was in violation of nuclear non-proliferation rules.

The return to its nuclear program at the plant in Natanz angered U.S. and European officials who say Iran is resuming nuclear research that they believe is part of an effort to build nuclear weapons.

Reuters, Washington - The United States warned Iran on Tuesday that the international community would have no choice but to seek action in the U.N. Security Council if Tehran continued to pursue sensitive nuclear activities.

Washington's reaction came after Iran removed U.N. seals at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant and resumed nuclear fuel research.